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> After doing a bit of research, we decided that the most common real world use cases of zero-knowledge proofs (age verification, crypto, etc) aren’t particularly interesting to us…

The move away from income taxes (typically progressive) to sales tax (inherently regressive) is a terrible step towards more economic inequality. This sort of regressive taxation i…

Don't tax trade, rather foreign capital gains. See https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/27/how-can-taxing-f...

She has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Birman

I guess "IR" is "intermediate representation" while "MLIR" [1] ("Multi-Level Intermediate Representation") is an IR from Chris Lattner/LLVM that is designed to be modular and exten…

I did not see _alternator_'s comment as asinine. I like a venue where people who have some expertise feel comfortable enough to share it, and are not criticized for doing so

Great visualization! I'm no soccer/football expert, but it seems to me that the most common TV camera shots are from the sideline at midfield. The (effective) camera for these shot…

For Ingalls Wilder, see the following https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder#Political...

That's an enjoyable read!

Mark Twain is America's Homer One aspect of Huckleberry Finn (the novel) that I think is relevant today is the spectacularly stupid zero-sum conflict between the Grangerfords and t…

Thanks!

The title of the article says "Are Argentina being treated favourably at World Cup?", while the first sentence says "Argentina are throwing everything at the defence of their World…

though the article doesn't say it in the abstract (and no where else I looked), SKA stands for "square kilometer array" and is a telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilo…

zero-knowledge proofs are a well-known tool in cryptography [1]. All Google is sharing is the library to implement it. Google would not have access to the information any more than…

mb go back and split this into multiple pull requests

The URL above is wrong. At present it is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articlehttps://www.bloomberg.... I guess it should be https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/app…

Daniel Kahneman: "I can explain it only by a weakness of the scholarly mind that I have often observed in myself. I call it theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theor…

I don't think the out loud or someone listening / reacting matters at all here. Suspect it's entirely this: >The thought that was comfortable as a vague impression has to become a …

I wonder if there's a difference between people who have a strong inner voice and those with no inner voice (Anendophasia). I.e. do people w Anendophasia do better on their own tha…

Are you sure you're looking at the right paper? I don't find the sentence you mention in the paper.

I grow my own beans and harvest rain water from my roof to use in my coffee ritual and ... am happy to let others do their own thing

> to that end, i'm not sure why it exists, except that it's truly a unique style. Many people swim as a form of exercise. Fly is exercising different muscles and allows me to get m…

give Apple some time; they'll add ads and otherwise enshitify the app

To be explicit, if one separates ownership rights and development rights, and gives the development easement to a conservation trust/foundation that has a mandate to never sell the…